I haven't been posting update blurbs so this cover a bit more ground. Basically all of Act 1 Part 2. Wrapped up the day and returned to Eryn.
Milsante was an okay small town but it has presented me with one of my big mysteries for this part in "Who is Diana?" Juna thinks she reminds her of someone, she mysteriously showed up in town eight years ago, and has an examine-able family photo in her room. My first, and still leading, guess is a connection to Altina because of the silver hair and how Altina has on multiple occasions mentioned the area is familiar somehow but what bugs me is... how? Like wasn't the whole point of the Oz project to create homonculi with artificial souls why would there be a connection to someone unless we're gonna learn she or her daughter was the model for Altina for reasons??
Beryl has some neat tricks if she can appear/disappear at will. oh god the Raquel casino is open now. Bleh at the payouts though, they're not very great even if you get to the maximum streak which isn't entirely trivial to do. On the road to Alster is mystery #2 - our two mystery women at the rest stop. I immediately ID'd Lucy from Sky 3 but her friend/associate/bodyguard? I'm still drawing a blank on and I feel like I shouldn't be. Fie also had an Active Voice Event on the road at a monument/memorial? but didn't elaborate.
Alster was a cool town. Might be a strong contender for best town theme in the series actually. Nice scene at Olivier's childhood home... or rather where it used to be. And hey it's Nielsen... time to read everything he says as suspiciously as possible. I see my very first thought in the game intro about Osgiliath Basin being suspect played out here albeit just as a singularity and not as a possible Black Workshop location as I theorized. The Musse reunion was good but not as powerful as Ash's. Aurelia still the greatest though lmao Cedric thinking Gareth aimnig at her meant shit. lmfao at Aurelia just casually stating that fighting her way out of the situation might only be a pain because Musse's safety was a concern. looooooool at Vita and Musse stealthing the Pantagruel there the whole time.
Another good section. Part 1's climax was more powerful IMO but Part 2 was more solid everywhere else.
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